The European Association for Banking and Financial History (eabh) e.V.
Your history matters!
Banks, insurance companies and other financial institutions are members of eabh.
Our members recognise their responsibility towards society. A well functioning financial sector helps to increase the welfare of all.
Our historians work on long-term topics that matter to the management of financial institutions and policy makers.
Since its foundation, eabh has provided historical analysis and preservation consulting to bankers, supervisors and policy makers.
How well do states’ banks do? A comparative look on how state owned banks addressed distinct market failures
200 years of international official lending: characteristics, occurrence and determinants
Long run returns on real estate compared to other asset classes
eabh circulates sound research and information upon which today’s decision makers can rely.
The legacy of the past continually resurfaces to determine actions in the present and the future. Through eabh membership institutions gain access to a global network of financial history experts who can provide competent advice.
Benefits of membership
The Bank for International Settlements after Bretton Woods, 1973-2020
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The eabh Podcast
Conversations about precedents from financial history that give persepective to what happens today in the world of finance, politics and policy making.
Episode 1: Debt & Dictators
eabh in conversation with Tobias Straumann
available from 24 February
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Webinar
History, Role, Impact
23 Feb 2021
Germany
eabh in conversation with with Aldo Musacchio (Brandeis International Business School) and Daniel Diaz (Universidad de Cantabria)
in cooperation with IBF and Leibniz Institute SAFE
How well do States’ Banks do?
Webinar
Using your heritage as a corporate strategic asset
24 Mar 2021
Stockholm, Sweden
eabh in conversation (on zoom) with Anders Sjöman (Centre for Business History in Stockholm)
Discover how to convince your institution that it should keep its historic materials in a professional archive – and also set aside budgets for it.
lunch hour
Cure or Curse?
Mar 2021
Germany
Harold James (Princeton University) and Eric Barthalon (Head of Research Allianz SE) will take a long term perspective on easy monetary policies and their implications.